[crawshaw]

This is the nature of large institutions: they have to distrust their own people. You cannot be relied on to act well, you must be checked first.

There is a good reason for this! In a large group of people, there are bad people.

This is also why I am done working at large companies. I learned a lot, met some great people, but am uninterested in a low trust environment. I like relying on my colleagues. When they do something unexpected, I am surprised and study it to learn, not lambast.